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In August, I purchased the Haibane Renmei volume 1 DVD with the box, having no idea what it was. I watched it and really like the series. It's one of my favorites. Anyway, I have also found out about the Haibane Renmei doujinshi that Yoshitoshi ABe created before it was turned into an anime. I have been looking for it, but have been unable to find it anywhere.

Well today, I found them for $20.00 each (there are four of them) plus $20 more for shipping. That will be a total of $100.00 for four 30 page ("pre-owned, but in good condition") doujinshis. My question is this: Is it worth it? Is the doujinshi rare enough to spend $100.00 on? If not, perhaps could someone point me to a place where I can get them for less?

No idea how much that would be worth. I think a certain group scanslated the first doujinshi of Haibane Renmei, so it might be worth your while to download it and look at it and if you think you'd spend $100 to own them, then that's fine. Let's see, it was a group called A-M. That would be Akatsuki-Manga, I suppose. You could also try and contact the scanner of the doujin and find out where he got them from and for how much.

I have the scanslated version of all of them. I just think it would be great to actually own them . That's why I want to buy them. I'm the kind of person who likes to own authentic stuff. So I'll buy CDs instead of downloading mp3s, and I buy anime when it comes out, instead of only keeping the fansubs or buying bootlegs .

Well I ended up buying them, and they arrived today! Although the auctions (they were on Ebay) said "Used but in good condition", they don't appear used at all . And the seller is from a site that sells doujinshi (link removed)... they are also there - for $40 each. So I got them for half price . I'm going to buy some more Yoshitoshi ABe doujinshi from that site when I get more money.